Category: Linguistic Search

  • Crowdsourcing app will measure the world for a week through smartphones

    Crowdsourcing app will “measure the world” for a week through smartphones Sean Gallagher, arstechnica.com If you’ve ever had trou­ble explain­ing the con­cept of “big data” to some­one—or had trou­ble wrap­ping your brain around the buzz­word your­self—Rick Smolan wants to help. But how do you demon­strate big data? It’s the some­what abstract,… http://flpbd.it/okN2Z Related articles How…

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  • Making Visible the Invisible: Meaning, Not Content, Matters in Social Data

    Making Visible the Invisible: Meaning, Not Content, Matters in Social Data Eric Openshaw and Alexander Pentland, Vice Chairman, Deloitte and Founder/Director, MIT Connection Science and Engineering Center, allthingsd.com There is no ques­tion that in today’s con­nect­ed world — where few activ­i­ties go untracked and undig­i­tized — social data is every­where, being gen­er­at­ed by the ter­abyte.…

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  • Energy Datapalooza: Open Data Power Meets Energy Future

    Energy Datapalooza: Open Data Power Meets Energy Future U.S. Department of Energy, earthtechling.com Edi­tor’s Note: Earth­Tech­ling is proud to repost this arti­cle cour­tesy of the U.S. Depart­ment of Ener­gy. Imag­ine it is a scorch­ing hot sum­mer day, and your smart phone beeps, ask­ing if you’d like it to raise your home ther­mo­st… http://flpbd.it/5ps28 Related articles…

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  • What to Consider in Deciding Whether to Rent or Buy

    What to Consider in Deciding Whether to Rent or Buy Richard Florida is Co-Founder and Editor at Large at The Atlantic Cities. He’s also a Senior Editor at The Atlantic, Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, and Global Research Professor at New York University. He is…

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  • How’s Your Cholesterol? The Crowd Wants To Know

    How’s Your Cholesterol? The Crowd Wants To Know Eliza Barclay, npr.org Our impulse to share inti­mate details about our lives with­in our social net­works (and even some­times with com­plete strangers) seems to know few bounds. Now devices loaded with health apps let us mon­i­tor and share our sleep pat­terns, stre… http://flpbd.it/Yqlsu Related articles Childhood Obesity…

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  • The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives

    Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives [Hardcover] Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, amazon.com Har­vard pro­fes­sor and health care pol­i­cy spe­cial­ist Chris­takis (Death Fore­told: Prophe­cy and Prog­no­sis in Med­ical Care) became inter­est­ed in social con­nec­tiv­i­ty when observ­ing that the mor­tal­i­ty rate of spous­es spike after … http://flpbd.it/0isRt Related articles Gastrophysics: Some…

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  • #The Rules Of Social Media: Contests And Sweepstakes Are Fine, If You Want Short Relationships

      By FAST COMPANY STAFF, fastcompany.com   When it comes to social media success, the long game is more valuable than the short game, according to Hill Holliday’s SVP of digital strategy, Mike Proulx.   “Many brands and indi­vid­u­als mis­tak­en­ly obsess about short­cut tac­tics to gain f…   http://flpbd.it/NcEEF   #The Rules Of Social Media:…

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  • The Sensing Planet: Why The Internet Of Things Is The Biggest Next Big Thing

        The Sensing Planet: Why The Internet Of Things Is The Biggest Next Big Thing fastcocreate.com Rob van Kranenburg outlines a brief history of the next big thing—the internet of things—and argues that U.S. industry and government should be taking a more active role in its evolution. About a decade ago, I would stand…

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  • The Limits of Science—and Scientists

    The Limits of Science—and Scientists | The Crux discovermagazine.com By Ananyo Bhat­tacharya, chief online edi­tor of Nature mag­a­zine. “About what one can not speak, one must remain silent.” The last line of Lud­wig Wittgen­stein’s Trac­ta­tus tends to res­onate with sci­en­tists, scep­tics,… http://flpbd.it/YNwwJ Related articles Final Trac Integrates with AccuTitle Software in Seamless Release Tracking Ordering…

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  • Reddit: Obama visit generates most activity

    Reddit: Obama visit generates most activity ever by Donna Tam, cnet.com The pres­i­dent breaks all the rules, breaks a Red­dit record, and draws at least 5.3 mil­lion views, news stats reveal. Pres­i­dent Barack Obama broke all the cam­paign­ing rules when he held an unmod­er­at­ed Q&A ses­sion on one of the… http://flpbd.it/NRaon Related articles How To…

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  • Netatmo Urban Weather Station

    Netatmo Urban Weather Station tells iOS users when it’s safe to brave the great outdoors (video) Jon Fingas, engadget.com We haven’t seen weath­er sta­tions gar­ner the same level of clever mobile inte­gra­tion as other pieces of house­hold gear — like, say, ther­mostats. Netat­mo wants its newly avail­able Urban Weath­er Sta­tion to inject a sim­i­lar dose…

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